My Friends

This is why the gaming companies of today are way too stupid to make movies

"Will there ever be a Half-Life movie? Maybe, but only if it's done right -- specifically, if it's done by Valve themselves."

This is the only way a video game movie should be done, unless there is a book based on the game that doesn't suck.

Hollywood is by far one of the biggest groups of lacking I.Q. I have ever become aware of. They are literately so incompetent (remember this includes M.Night Shamalan) they never once even get close to grasping the same "feel" from the game to the movie. Not even close, and that my friends is absolutely pathetic.

But whats more pathetic is that Valve is the first video game company that have decided to make the movie about their video game themselves. I don't get it, if you were going to make a movie based on the game your company creates, the first thing I'd think of is how my company would make that movie. And before you go and pull the "Hey, they aren't experienced at making movies, it doesn't make any sense for them to make a movie". Video games, and movies are quite similar, they both normally tell a story, and they try and get the audience to take something out of that experience, or of course they are strictly created to get your money. The biggest difference between video games, and movies is intellect, it requires far more man hours, and far more competent men to create a video game. Even books compare themselves better with video games than they do with movies. In a book the author might describe every detail of the main characters attire, in a video game its equally important what the main character is wearing, and the creators go into a very similar amount of attention to detail.

So the question is why would you take your baby, and give it to a bunch of morons with the intention of making it simpler.

Congraduations Valve for being the first company with a logical idea about how to go about a video game movie.

The gaming industry deserves each and every one of the terrible game-movie adaptations, for trusting hollywood with something far too complicated.

Off topic: Halo: Reach (the book) would probably be the best video game movie ever. Hmmm maybe I should make a top 10 list for games-movies, that wouldn't suck if the gaming company did it themselves...